)   Brownfields 2014  Cleanup Grant  Fact Sheet
    ~         Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, Easton, MD
EPA Brownfields Program

EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states.
communities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the
expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be
complicated by the presence or potential presence of a
hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. In 2002,
the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
Revitalization Act was passed to help states and
communities around the country cleanup and revitalize
brownfields sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial
assistance to eligible applicants through four competitive
grant programs: assessment grants, revolving loan fund
grants, cleanup grants, and job training grants.
Additionally, funding support is provided to state  and
tribal response programs through a separate mechanism.
                     Cleanup Grant

                     $150,000 for hazardous substances
                     $50,000 for petroleum

                     EPA has selected the Eastern Shore Land
                     Conservancy for a brownfields cleanup grant.
                     Hazardous substances and petroleum grant funds
                     will be used to clean up at 114-130 S. Washington
                     Street in Easton for eventual transformation to the
                     Eastern Shore Conservation Center. The property,
                     located within Easton's National Register Historic
                     District, comprises the former McCord Laundry
                     Building, which closed in 2009, and five adjacent
                     1850s row houses, which have been vacant since a
                     2012 fire. Contaminants include drycleaning
                     fluids and fuel oil. Grant funds will be used to
                     guide the cleanup effort, remove and dispose of
                     contaminated soil, install impervious materials to
                     prevent stormwater infiltration, and remove three
                     underground storage tanks.
                                                     Contacts

                                                     For further information, including specific grant
                                                     contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
                                                     news and events, and publications and links, visit
                                                     the EPA Brownfields Web site
                                                     (http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).

                                                     EPA Region 3 Brownfields Team
                                                     215-814-3246
                                                     EPA Region 3 Brownfields Web site
                                                     (http://www.epa.gov/reg3hwmd/bf -lr/)

                                                     Grant Recipient: Eastern Shore Land
                                                     Conservancy,MD
                                                     410-493-0852

                                                     The information presented in this fact sheet comes
                                                     from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
                                                     accuracy of this information. The cooperative
                                                     agreement for the grant has not yet been
                                                     negotiated. Therefore, activities described in this
                                                     fact sheet are subject to change.
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA-560-F-14-065
      May 2014

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